Britton, John [Hrsg.]: The fine arts of the English school: illustrated by a series of engravings from paintings, sculpture, and architecture, of eminent English artists ; with ample biographical, critical, and descriptive essays (London, 1812) [Cicognara, 14]

THE

FINE ARTS

THE ENGLISH SCHOOL;

ILLUSTRATED BY

A SERIES OF ENGRAVINGS,

FKOM

$attrtmsiS, Sculpture, an& architecture,

OF EMINENT

ENGLISH A.1RTISTS i

WITH AMPLE

BIOGRAPHICAL, CRITICAL, AND DESCRIPTIVE ESSAYS,

BY VARIOUS AUTHORS.

EDITED, AND PARTLY WRITTEN, BY

JOHN BRITTON, PSA.

YE NOBLER ARTSI AS LIFE'S LAST LUSTRE GIVEN,

GILDING EARTH'S GROSSNESS WITH THE GLOSS OF HEAVEN!—

—GODS I WHAT A GLORY WOULD INVEST HIS NAME!

WHAT PALMS PERENNIAL SPRING AROUND HIS FAME!

WHOSE GENEROUS SPIRIT SHOULD OUR AGE REPROVE,

AND TO THE LIVING ARTS EXTEND HIS LOVE.

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UrintrO at \%z fflfjiotoicfc i9ms,

BY C. WHITTINGHAM;

FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW j J. TAYLOR, HIGH HOLBORN: THE
EDITOR, TAVISTOCK-PLACE; AND W. BOND, NEWMAN-STREET, LONDON.

1812.